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  1. Phishing Rises Three Times Faster in Europe Than Globally, Proofpoint Finds

    New Proofpoint research reveals phishing detections surged 4.5x across Europe year over year, compared with 1.5x globally

  2. Microsoft 365 Outage Set to Ramp up Security Risks to Organizations

    While Microsoft resolves the global M365 and Outlook outage, cybersecurity teams remain on high alert as cybercriminals prepare to exploit the chaos

  3. AI Set to Revolutionize Ransomware Following “Stagnant” Few Years

    TrendAI’s Bob McArdle said ransomware techniques will change significantly in the next year, with AI making attacks more dangerous and profitable

  4. Weak Passwords Expose SQL Servers to Cryptominer and Gh0st RAT

    Fortinet finds weak SQL Server passwords used to deliver a miner and Gh0st RAT

  5. Hacked Asian Telcos Used to Intercept Taiwanese Calls and Texts

    Enea linked SilentAir and Liminal Panda to attacks on Asian mobile operators

  6. Lego Takes BrickLink Marketplace Offline After Detecting Unusual Activity

    Lego has taken its BrickLink Marketplace offline after detecting unusual activity as the company investigates the incident

  7. Security Teams Must Shift from Patching to Mitigation in the AI Era

    Symantec’s Dick O’Brien says the rapid closure of the patch window means organizations must move beyond patching and adopt an assume exploit mindset

  8. NCSC Launches Cyber Adversary Testing to Boost Resilience

    The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has launched a new Cyber Adversary Simulation (CyAS) scheme

  9. Maersk Reveals Data Breach as Extortion Group Demands $5m

    Maersk has revealed a threat actor extracted data from one of its legacy systems

  10. N-able Rushes Out N-central Fixes After 33 Zero-Days Go Public

    N-able fixes seven N-central CVEs after 33 alleged zero-days are published

  11. Anthropic's Glasswing Finds Many Vulnerabilities Yet Delivers Few Fixes, Researcher Says

    VulnCheck’s Patrick Garrity has found that seven months on, Project Glasswing resulted in only 217 vulnerabilities getting fixed, despite thousands reported

  12. Suspected Chinese Malware Supplier Tied to Three Hacking Campaigns

    Check Point links three China-nexus clusters through a shared Sparrow malware framework

  13. OT Incidents Hit a Third of Industrial Organizations, SANS Finds

    SANS Institute records largest single-year jump in ICS/OT cyber incidents

  14. Microsoft Fixes 1235 Flaws in Another Record Patch Tuesday

    Microsoft patched a record-breaking 1235 CVEs in November’s Patch Tuesday

  15. CISA Expands Incident Reporting Form While CIRCIA Mandate Waits

    CISA adds MITRE ATT&CK detail to incident reports as CIRCIA rule awaits White House review

  16. Russia-Linked Turla Hijacks Exchange Servers to Spy on NATO and EU Emails

    Turla used compromised Exchange servers to collect NATO and EU-linked emails

  17. Cloud Vulnerabilities Surge Fourfold in Less Than a Year

    AI is amplifying the impact of vulnerabilities, long-lived credentials and other cloud risks, says Datadog

  18. Default Admin Password Let Researchers Unlock and Start Cars

    Default admin password on automaker login servers let researchers unlock and start test cars

  19. Vanderbilt University Takes Systems Offline After Cyber Incident

    The BYOD ransomware group has claimed to have locked the university’s databases and stolen sensitive data from its systems

  20. France Blames Iran for Supermarket Fridge Hack, Requests International Arrest Warrants

    The French authorities have tied the cyber-attack targeting supermarket fridges to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

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